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Kay Bailey Hutchison is staying in the Senate after all. The Texas Republican announced today that she will serve out the remainder of her term through 2013, despite pledges during her failed bid for governor that she would resign early, reports the Dallas Morning News. "My experience will be better used fighting this effort by the president and the Congress to do so much to take away the essence of America," she said.

The decision is good news for Republicans, says Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. Hutchison caught flak for moving toward the center, but she's been "firm on conservative positions." And had she left, Democrat Bill White might have won the special election. "With Hutchison’s decision to stay, the GOP has one less worry in November, which allows them to focus on winning seats held by Democrats rather than playing defense."

She just got her ass soundly kicked by a dufus like Rick Perry in the Tx Republican Governor's primary. The guy who was talking about seceding from the union. The guy who wouldn't take the federal stimulus money until his constituents asked him to take a sanity test. The guy whose state school board voted to downgrade Thomas Jefferson's status as a founding father. Strangely enough by Tx standards Hutchison is a GOP moderate. Compared to Cornyn she's downright liberal. Maybe as a presumably lame duck GOP Senator she'll be more apt to vote with some reason and not have to tow the "just say no" party line. Let's hope so. She's the sanest inmate at the funny farm.

Observer

Mar 31, 2010 10:01 PM CDT

Of course she is. The pompous fake bitch. She is so worthless and a complete embarassment to the Great State of Texas. Go away KBH. You are no longer wanted by anyone.